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La manera de construir la Unión Europea ha sido paso a paso. Desde la construcción de una comunidad fundamentalmente económica hasta la realidad actual de una Union a la vez económica y política. Este paso a paso es el que ofrece esta cronologia

Un libro sobre Historia de la Comunicación Europea.

The eighth edition of this highly-praised textbook has been substantially updated and revised to provide students of British studies with the perfect introduction to Britain, its country and people, politics and government, education, economy, media, arts and religion. It includes:- discussion of recent developments and areas of topical interest in British society such as immigration, the recession, devolution and the Scottish Referendum and Britains relationships with the US and the EU- coverage of the 2015 general election and its implications for the future- new full-colour illustrations- exercises and questions to stimulate class discussion- insights into the attitudes of British people today towards important issues- updated suggestions for further reading and useful websites.Supported by a fully updated companion website featuring further exercises, quiz questions, an interactive timeline, links to relevant articles and videos online and tutor guidance, British Civilization is a vital introduction to the crucial and complex identities of Britain past and present.

Este libro está formado por tres estudios centrados en Portugal y su Imperio colonial. A partir del amplio conocimiento de la bibliografía existente, de numerosas entrevistas a los protagonistas de aquellos momentos historicos y de la consulta de los archivos portugueses, Josep Sanchez Cervello reflexiona sobre un hecho que cambio el mundo: la Revolucion de los claveles y su consecuente impacto mundial.

La historia de Carlemany i la seva nissaga es un dels eixos vertebradors de la identitat d’Europa que ha determinat significativament la memoria historica, religiosa i cultural dels pasos i les regions del continent formats en el si de l’imperi carolingi. El present volum recull un conjunt d’estudis sobre diversos temes reilacionats amb la figura de Carlemany i el seu entorn, que conviden el lector a fer un recorregut cronologic i geografic per l’antiguitat tardana i la Mediterrania altmedieval, partint d’Italia —centre neuralgic—, passant per França i la peninsula Iberica, i fent especial atencio a Catalunya. Capdavanter en aquest tipus d’investigacio en catala, el llibre mostra les tendencies actuals de la recerca internacional i integra Catalunya en el ric painorama de les multiples identitats europees.

The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society

Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in making big history interesting and understandable' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel'Morris succeeds triumphantly at cramming 10,000 years of history into a single book' Robert Colvile, The TimesFor hundreds of years, Britannia ruled the waves and an empire on which the sun never set - but forthousands of years before that, Britain had been no more than a cluster of unimportant islands off Europe's north-west shore. Drawing on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, Ian Morris shows how much the meaning of Britain's geography has changed in the 10,000 years since rising seas began separating the Islesfrom the Continent, and how these changing meanings have determined Britons' destinies. From being merely Europe's fractious, feuding periphery - divided by customs, language and landscape, and always at the mercy of more powerful continental neighbours - the British turned themselves into a United Kingdom and put it at the centre of global politics, commerce and culture.But as power and wealth now shift from the West towards China, what fate awaits Britain in the twenty-first century?

A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'A spirited attempt at uncovering the mystery of how Birmingham has managed for so long to stand at the centre of Britain's history without anyone noticing ... This absorbing book shows us how we did it' Observer'Vinen has written a history of Birmingham, but it is also a theory of Birmingham. And also, perhaps, a theory of England.I buy it' Daily TelegraphFor over a century, Birmingham has been the second largest town in England, and central to modern history. In his richly enjoyable new book Richard Vinen captures the drama of a small village that grew to become the quintessential city of the twentieth century: a place of mass production, full employment and prosperity that began in the 1930s, but which came to a cataclysmic halt in the 1980s. For most of that time, Birmingham has also been a magnet for migration, drawing in people from Wales, Ireland, India, Pakistan and the Caribbean.

During the period 1550-1650, the Spanish monarchy faced military challenges that put at stake its European hegemony. Having learned from the maritime wars, the Spanish changed their paradigm of maritime warfare. As a result, the main maritime shipping force in the Spanish kingdom, the Basque merchant shipbuilding tradition, was no longer a suitable navy to defend the Imperial interests. This led to a shipbuilding transition to suit a more militarized type of design, although Basques found alternatives to their traditional merchant endeavours, reaching their shipbuilding peak by the 17th century. This book challenges traditional historiography and shows an alternative story through the cultural view of Basque shipbuilders, heterogeneous but interconnected to contemporary traditions, such as the Portuguese. Basque shipbuilding was a unique tradition in its making, belonging to a wider Euro-Atlantic network of culture and technology.

A FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR **'A must read' - Janina Ramirez, bestselling author of Femina'An eye-opening history of Britain's enduring fixation with its own past' - Jeremy Paxman'Rule, Nostalgia announces Woods as one of the most interesting new historians of her generation' - Dan SnowLonging to go back to the 'good old days' is nothing new. For hundreds of years, the British have mourned the loss of tradition and called for a revival of 'simpler', 'better' ways of life, from modern politicians indulging in fantasies of an imperial past, to Victorian artists yearning to retreat into a medieval dream of Merry England. But were the 'good old days' ever quite how we remember them?

An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph 'On nearly every page a random passage takes one's breath away' The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where battles were fought and where pilgrims trod. Almost everyone in Britain lives close to a Roman road, if only we knew where to look. In the beginning was Watling Street, the first road scored on the land when the invading Romans arrived on a cold and alien Kentish shore in 43 CE.

A Waterstones Best History Book of 2022 The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants. 'Entertaining' The Times 'Definitive' The Mirror 'Highly readable' Financial Times A work of unrivalled scale and ambition, Northerners is the defining biography of northern England. This authoritative new history of place and people lays out the dramatic events that created the north - waves of migration, invasions and battles, and transformative changes wrought on European culture and the global economy.In a sweeping narrative that takes us from the earliest times to the present day, the book shows that the people of the north have shaped Britain and the world in unexpected ways. At least six Roman emperors ruled from York. The Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria was Europe's leading cultural and intellectual centre.Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantes, deserves to be as famous as Boudica. Neanderthals and Vikings, Central European Jews, African-Caribbeans and South Asians, have all played their part in the making and remaking of the north. Northern writers, activists, artists and comedians are celebrated the world over, from Wordsworth, the Brontes and Gaskell to LS Lowry, Emmeline Pankhurst and Peter Kay.

Se ha considerado por muchos especialistas que la primitiva historia de Europa, escrita en los manuscritos primitivos de la Europa Atlántica, referente a las invasiones de los Tuatha de Danann, los Hijos de Mil de España y otras corrientes migratorias venidas de la Grecia asiatica y el Caucaso, es solamente mitologia.No obstante hasta el momento no ha existido un trabajo exhaustivo sobre este tema o una explicacion bien documentada que sustente dicha teoria.Nuestra intencion con este trabajo es ofrecer una exposicion con los datos que poseemos sobre el tema, haciendo referencia a los trabajos de prestigiosos arqueologos, historiadores o filologos, con gran profusion de datos, que lleven al lector a considerar seriamente esta posibilidad y comprobar si tiene una base real. Todo ello lo podremos ir viendo en las paginas de este libro. Nuestra propia conclusion, al completar este libro, es verdaderamente inspiradora y sorprendente.

El reinado de Carlos III estuvo completamente mediatizado por laherencia recibida de su padre Felipe V, además de por la humillacióna que el propio Carlos se vio sometido frente a la escuadra inglesa cuando era rey de Napoles. Esa animadversion hacia Inglaterra marcaria su vida, sucediendose los enfrentamientos contra esta potencia durante buena parte de su reinado.Los fracasos militares fueron la tonica dominante durante la Guerrade los Siete Años (1756-1763). El Norte de Africa constituiria durante el reinado de Carlos III otro de los escenarios calientes. A la exitosa defensa de Melilla en 1774-1775 frente al Sultan de Marruecos, le siguio el estrepitoso fracaso contra Argel ese ultimo año. No obstante, la diplomacia se encargaria de solucionar aquello que no habian logrado las armas.

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come before, and anything that exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics.In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she traces the arc of the state they would go on to create, first under the watchful eye of Stalin, and then in an increasingly distinctive German fashion. From the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, to the relative prosperity of the 1970s, and on to the creaking foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s, Hoyer argues that amid oppression and frequent hardship, East Germany was yet home to a rich political, social and cultural landscape, a place far more dynamic than the Cold War caricature often painted in the West.Powerfully told, and drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen interviews, letters and records, this is the definitive history of the other Germany, the one beyond the Wall

Gregorio Lobariñas Feixoo é unha das figuras máis descoñecidas e atractivas da nosa historia cultural. Este inquisidor de Crecente escribiu As Galegadas, de a cabalo entre os séculos XVI e XVIII, obra hoxe perdida, mais escrita en lingua galega en plenos Seculos Escuros. Antonio Jacinto Lobariñas Feixoo, un dos seus parentes, nacido en Filgueira (Crecente) no seculo XVIII, exerceu a Medicina e colaborou co Padre Sarmiento nas suas investigacions sobre as propiedades curativas das plantas. Perfecto Ramos Rodriguez aproveita as biografias destes dous intelectuais para retratar un vivido fresco sobre os tempos dos Lobariñas Feixoo e crebar moitos dos mitos que perduran sobre a situacion da cultura escrita en lingua galega.